Officers' Quarters with Attached Basement Area Railings, St George's Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1983. Quarters. 2 related planning applications.

Officers' Quarters with Attached Basement Area Railings, St George's Barracks

WRENN ID
ragged-bastion-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gosport
Constituency
Gosport MP: Dame Caroline Dinenage (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 April 1983
Type
Quarters
Address
Officers' Quarters with Attached Basement Area Railings, St George's Barracks, PO12 1AG
OS grid reference
SU 616 003
Coordinates
50.79914, -1.12708
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Officers' Quarters at St George's Barracks, built between 1856 and 1859, is a disused structure made of yellow stock brick with lateral stacks and a flat roof. It features a double-depth axial plan and consists of a single storey with a basement. The building has a symmetrical front with a ground-floor band, cornice, and parapet. The façade includes a 7:8:7-window range, with entrances at each end that divide the front into three sections. These entrances have stone surrounds, bracketed cornices, overlights, and half-glazed doors, with margin lights and stairs leading to the basement area. The windows are fitted with rubber brick heads and 6/6-pane sashes on both levels. A square water tower is located at the southwest corner, supported by round arches.

Inside, the building contains dogleg stairs from the entrances, a central passage connecting the rooms, and original joinery, including panelled doors and plasterwork. The property is also notable for its attached cast-iron railings, which feature panels with diagonal bars at the entrance stairs and around the round basement areas.

Historically, the quarters housed officers and servants, as well as a mess. The barracks served as a transit station for infantry after the Crimean War and were designed to be bomb-proof due to their location just inside the Gosport Lines. This site is the only example of this type of barracks in the country and forms a complete group with the Lines earthworks, highlighting Gosport's significance in the defense of the Portsmouth dockyard.

Local climate

Officers' Quarters with Attached Basement Area Railings, St George's Barracks receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Guard House at Entrance to North Section, St George's Barracks Grade II 96 m
  2. Pump House Grade II 102 m
  3. Thrift Shop at St George's Barracks Grade II 104 m
  4. Lamp Post, Standing in A Central Position in Front of the Gateway at St George's Barracks Grade II 107 m
  5. Cooperage West Range Grade II 111 m
  6. Southern Boundary Wall to Royal Clarence Yard Grade II 115 m
  7. Cooperage South Range Grade II 116 m
  8. Barrack and Attached Railings North of Officers' Barracks, St George's Barracks Grade II 139 m
  9. Cooperage East Range Grade II 149 m
  10. Two Gate Piers Marking the Former Railway Line to South East of Railway Inn Grade II 150 m